Nicholas D. Pyenson

    Ph.D. Candidate

    Department of Integrative Biology &

    Museum of Paleontology

    University of California, Berkeley

 Research Interests:

• Paleobiology & systematics of cetaceans
  

• Paleoecology & evolution of marine vertebrates 

• Size, scaling & macroecology
  

• Pacific Rim geology
  

• History & philosophy of evolutionary biology

Recent News:

• Big gulps in fin whales [Goldbogen et al., 2007] 
• Miocene whale-fall from California [Pyenson & Haasl, 2007] 
• Cephalopod-cetacean interactions in the fossil record [Lindberg & Pyenson, 2007]